The Old World
The Old World is here seen winding through the land and ending at the shore where two schooners depart over the horizon. The movement begins at the left with the ancient stone blocks of antiquity towering over the future. Arches, triangles, rectangles, facades, and lines intersect and undulate to suggest the movement, intensity, and cluttered interwoveness of history as it was actually lived. The boats depart into the future by sailing over the horizon.
The journey of the boats is evocative of Augustine's alternative to creation and evolution. Jeffrey Augustine has said that, "Creation and evolution are tectonic plates in the sphere of man's knowledge. Since the time of the Scopes Trial, these two plates have been locked in a crushing contest of wills embodied by the debate between science and religion over the origins of the universe. This struggle is the old, flat world of thought that is lived on two planes. The Third Option offers a new conceptualization, another dimension, to the question of our origins and so allows humanity to sail beyond the horizon of creation and evolution."
